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Mr. Mark Leslie has been the Managing Director at Leslie Ventures, L.P. since January 2002. Mr. Leslie serves as an Advisor at iGlobe Partners. He serves as Vice President of Research at Corus Television at Corus Entertainment Inc. He serves as a Technology Partner at El Dorado Ventures. He serves as Member of the Executive Board at NYU Innovation Venture Fund. Mr. Leslie was a Venture Partner and Member of Industry Advisory Council at Azure Capital Partners. He served ... as Director of Research at Corus Television at Corus Entertainment Inc. Mr. Leslie served as an Advisor at IntApp, Inc. and HealthTap, Inc. He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Netlabs, Inc. He served as the founding Chief Executive Officer and Founding Chairman at Veritas Software, Inc. from April 1997 to December 2001 and also served as its President from 1990 to November 2000. From 1980 to 1990, he served as the President and the Chief Executive Officer at two high- tech start up companies. Mr. Leslie founded and served as a Principal at Leslie Consulting and served as the President and the Chief Executive Officer at Rugged Digital Systems, Inc. His prior experience includes OS Programmer, Systems Engineer, Sales, and Sales Management in the computer industry. Since 1969 at IBM, Mr. Leslie designed and developed the first software hypervisor. He serves as Chairman and Director of Kii Inc. Mr. Leslie serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Versant Object Technology Corporation. He has been Chairman of the Board of Xsigo Systems, Inc. since May 2011 and also serves as its Director. Mr. Leslie has been a Director at Nebula, Inc. since July 31, 2013, SugarCRM, Inc. since February 2008 and Network Appliance, Inc. since July 14, 2004. He serves as a Director of PernixData, Inc. Mr. Leslie has been Director of ZeRTO Ltd. since September 2014. He serves as Director of Liquid Robotics, Model N, Inc., SeaMicro, Inc., Model N Software, Pure Storage, Inc., SeaMicro Systems, Skybox Imaging, Inc., Xsigo Corporation, MetricStream Corporation, Big Switch Networks Inc., db4object, Vertex Venture Holdings, and Panta Systems, Inc. Mr. Leslie has been Non Executive Director of Wall Street Systems Delaware, Inc. since April 2008. He also serves on the Boards of Doostang, Inc. and Keynote. Mr. Leslie has been a Director of Model N, Inc. since January 2014. He serves as a Director of Nutanix, Inc., and Interana, Inc. He served as Director of Librato, Inc. Mr. Leslie serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Apprenda Inc. He serves as Advisor of the Board at EzRez Software, Inc. Mr. Leslie serves as a Member of Board of Advisors at Wellsphere, Inc. Mr. Leslie serves also on the Boards of Community Foundation of Silicon Valley, Jewish Life, Leslie Family Foundation, SDForum, and VERITAS Software Foundation. In addition, he is on the Board of Overseers at New York University and is the Chairman of their Science Advisory Board. Mr. Leslie serves as an Advisor to the Board at Switchfly, Inc. He has been a Member of Advisory Board at Coraid Inc. since January 2010. Mr. Leslie serves as a Member of Industry and Technical Advisory Board at oodside Fund. He serves as Member of Advisory Board at NYU Innovation Venture Fund. He serves on the New York University Board of Trustees. Mr. Leslie served as a Director of Outerbay Technologies, Inc. and Keynote Systems, Inc. He served as Chairman and Director of Prassi Europe SAS. Mr. Leslie served as a Director of NetApp, Inc. from July 14, 2004 to August 31, 2010. He served as a Director of Zaplet, Inc., Kenamea Inc., and Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Mr. Leslie served as a Director of Avaya Inc. from July 19, 2001 to October 26, 2007. He served as a Director of PostX Corporation and Scalix, Inc. Mr. Leslie served as Director of Model N, Inc. from October 2001 to December 2012. He served as a Director of Cassatt Corporation. Mr. Leslie served as a Director of Cisco WebEx LLC from February 2002 to June 2003, Veritas Software Corp. from May 1988 to May 31, 2004, and VMware. He served as a Director of Aurum Software, Inc. since April 1996. Mr. Leslie is widely known as a high technology entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and board member at numerous top storage and infrastructure startups. Mr. Leslie is a Lecturer /Adjunct Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business teaching courses in entrepreneurship, ethics, and sales organization, and Stanford University Graduate Engineering. He completed Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development in 1980 and holds a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from New York University in 1966.

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